{"id":72464,"date":"2019-11-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=72464"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:38:59","slug":"c-s-lewis-on-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/21\/c-s-lewis-on-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis on Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"490\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Confession.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Confession.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Confession-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Confession-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Confession-600x342.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"my recent appearance (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thecatholicmanshow.com\/screwtape2\/\" target=\"_blank\">my recent appearance<\/a> on The Catholic Man Show, I mentioned that C.S. Lewis went to weekly confession to an Anglican priest. I thought I&#8217;d share one of his letters today where he points out the value of confessing our sins out loud:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8230;there is the gain in self-knowledge: most of [us] have never really faced the facts about ourselves until we uttered them aloud in plain words, calling a spade a spade. I certainly feel I have profited enormously by the practice. <\/p><cite>The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only is Confession biblical, it&#8217;s also good psychology \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my recent appearance on The Catholic Man Show, I mentioned that C.S. Lewis went to weekly confession to an Anglican priest. I thought I&#8217;d share one of his letters today where he points out the value of confessing our sins out loud: &#8230;there is the gain in self-knowledge: most of [us] have never really faced the facts about ourselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1914,1291],"class_list":["post-72464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-confession"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74142,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464\/revisions\/74142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}